All posts tagged Arab Spring

The summer of 2013 was witness to a series of social uprisings and resistance movements across the globe. This meeting looks back on the events that took place in Turkey, Egypt and Brazil – their underlying causes, and what their […]

Kieran Crowe reflects on the turn from revolution to counter-revolution in Egypt In all the great revolutions in history, any period of struggle against an old order is followed by an attempt by that very same order to roll it […]

Kieran Crowe discusses the prospects for Egypt’s ‘revolution in progress’ When we come to look back on the early 2010s, one image that is certain to leap to our collective memories will be the Egyptian revolution and its symbolic beating […]

Mark Booth urges support for a solidarity protest this Saturday The Syrian Revolution is close to its second anniversary. After two years of brutal repression the Syrian people are still fighting. Beginning on March 15th in 2011, since the start of […]